In 2011 Marc Andreessen famously wrote in a column in the WSJ that software was eating the world.
His basic argument went that we were in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies were poised to take over a very large proportion of the economy.
And indeed several advances of the software industry witnessed over the last decade or so have been phenomenal. Everything is connected and talks code. There is less and less room for unplugged in our world.
To me there is an interesting debate to be made about artificial intelligence –not debating now whether the adjective “artificial” should be emphasized– being a true new transformational frontier; the core concept that will become the new subject in Andreessen’s quote.
Yoshua Bengio, a deep learning expert and professor of computer science at the University of Montreal, told the MIT Tech Review that we thinks we are blowing the latest advances seen in the field of AI totally out of proportion. He is not alone.
Only time will tell, but with a massive amount of resources and some of the world’s most bright and action-driven minds committed to deciphering how our brain truly works, I do expect to see huge advances in the development of general artificial intelligence over the next three to five years.
And hopefully to be at least a small part of that too, starting with Iris AI!
PS: in this Loogic interview (in Spanish) I tangentially touch on the same topic.
